Juergen Mlynek

Juergen Mlynek, an experimental physicist by training, is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Falling Walls Foundation. He is former president of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers and former president of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Before moving into science management, Mlynek was a professor at ETH Zurich and the University of Konstanz. For his research in the field of quantum optics, Mlynek has received numerous science and research prizes.